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CITY OF NORTH OLM5TED RESOLUTION NO. 2004 -152 BY: The Entire City Council A ItESOL UTION OPPOSING THE PROPOSAL OF THE GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT A UTHORITY ("GCRTA ") TO ELIMINATE THE NUMBER 53 GREAT NORTHERN - CENTER RIDGE BIIS ROUTE, WHICH HAS BEEN OPERATED BY THE NORTH OLMSTED MUNICIPAL BUS LINE ("NOMBL') SINCE THE EARLY 1960'S, URGING GCRTA TO INSTEAD CONVERT THE NUMBER 53 BUS ROUTE INTO A COMMUNITY CIRCULATOR ROUTE AND EXPAND ITS ROUTE AS RECOMMENDED BY ITS OWN CONSULTANT, TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL SERVICE ON DOVER CENTER ROAD, CENTER RIDGE ROAD, AND CROCKER ROAD TO THE WESTLAKE PROMENADE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCYAS AMENDED. WHEREAS, the North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line, since the early 1960's, first as Ohio's oldest public bus line and thereafter pursuant to its operating agreement with the Crreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority ("GCRTA"), has operated the Number 53 Great Northern - Center Ridge bus route, which provides an important link for passengers travelling between the Westgate Transit Center and the Great Northern Shopping Center, in North Olmsted, Ohio; and WHEREAS, the Number 53 bus route further provides an important public service for the elderly and other transit dependent individuals in the Fairview Paxk and North Olmsted communities; and WHEREAS, in 1997 the GCRTA commissioned a study resulting in a report known as the Comprehensive Operational Analysis, which concluded that the Number 53 bus route should be converted to a Community Circulator route and the route itself expanded to include additional services on Dover Center Road, Center Ridge Road, and Crocker Road to the Westlake Promenade; and N'HEREAS, GCRTA has not followed the recommendation of this report by implementing such a change in service on the Number 53 bus route, but has instead proposed to altogether eliminate the Number 53 bus route; and WHEREAS, if the Number 53 bus route is eliminated, in addition to the loss of service to the public, and particularly the elderly and other transit dependent individuals, the City of North Olmsted will be required to layoff bus operators, who are members of AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Loca13517, and the City's ability to continue to efficiently operate NOMBL within the GCRTA system will be deleteriously affected; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLirED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, AND STATE OF OHIO: _